Description
Book SynopsisHeavy Drinking informs the general public for the first time how recent research has discredited almost every widely held belief about alcoholism, including the very concept of alcoholism as a single disease with a unique cause. Herbert Fingarette presents constructive approaches to heavy drinking, including new methods of helping heavy drinkers and social policies for preventing heavy drinking and the harms associated with it.
Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
What Science Now Knows, but the Public Doesn't
PART 1
The Classic Disease Concept of Alcoholism
CHAPTER 1
Where Did We Get the Idea That Alcoholism
Is a Disease?
CHAPTER 2
Can Alcoholics Control Their Drinking?
CHAPTER 3
What Causes Alcoholism?
CHAPTER 4
Have "Alcoholism Treatments" Really Worked?
PART 2
New Approaches to Heavy Drinking
CHAPTER 5
Understanding Heavy Drinking as a Way of Life
CHAPTER 6
Helping the Heavy Drinker
CHAPTER 7
Social Policies to Prevent and Control
Heavy Drinking
AFTERWORD
WORKS CITED
INDEX
